Improvement in cake-washing machines



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CARRINGTON A. FULLER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAKE-WASHING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 147,761, dated February 24, 1874; application filed December 27, 1873. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GARRINGTON A. FUL- LER, of Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Cake- Machinery, of which the following is a speci-- tica-tion My invention is designed to perform a cer-V tain operation mechanically which has hither- Vto been done entirely by manual labor. A

certain class of cakes, like ginger-snaps, are commonly wet or washed upon their upper surface before baking to remove any flour that might be adherent, and to cause a certain gloss that is preferred upon such cakes. This operation is generally performed by dipping a large at brush in water, and applying to the cakes as they lie on the p an ready for the oven.

For this purpose I have invented an arrangement consisting of a wet brush and travcling-apron, made of two belts with cross-slats,

which might be made to form a part of the apron or carrier C, composed of belts and slats D, and a revolving brush, E, adjustable above the surface of the apron. A drivingpulley, F, receives the power to drive the maI chine, and a belt, H, conveys the mot-ion to the brush E. Above the brush is shown a perforated pipe or trough, I, containing water to Wet the brush E.

Vhen the machine is set in motion the water falls upon the brush as it revolves. The apron or carrier carries the pans of cake beneath the brush, and, after wetting, they are delivered, by the continuous motion of the carrier, to an attendant to place in the oven or upon racks.

It is obvious that a canvas belt or apron could be used as a carrier, but water shrinks it injuriously.

A. self-feeding stationary brush, like a broad whitewash-brush, could also be used instead of a revolving brush to wash or wet the sur face of the cakes. l v

The whole device could either be constructed separately, (in which case it can be used to Wwash hand-made cakes,) or form a part of a cake making and panning machine.

I am aware that brushes have been used before in combination with traveling-aprons, and I do not, therefore, make any claim to them apart from the other device shown; but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a cake-washing machine, t-he combination, with an endless apron, C, and brush E, of the Water-supply pipe ortrough I, as and for the purposes specified.

C. A. FULLER. 

